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English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they've got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they've been brought up with.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?